"We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." -Tyler Durden- Chuck Palahniuk.
I can't help but feel that great writing is inspired by something well...great. However sorrowful or fantastic writing may be, there is a spark that happens naturally in the world and we as writers are there to capture it and turn it into something more or less. My predicament is the same of Tyler's. We have a war I'm pretty positive nobody truly knows anything about and a "Recession" where I slightly have less money in my pocket. I'm not claiming to be in the political know-how or even up to date with the status-quo. Hell I don't even keep up with pop culture. Am I the only one who hates Justin Beiber and Chris Brown almost instantly? No. There is nothing so powerful that has moved me to write aside from the fact that there's a noticeable lack of it. Am I so blind as to not see the stories that unfold around me? Am I suffering writer's block? Are volumes so overwhelming that I've become deaf and blind?
I mustn't be afraid to flow my mind. For now I'll just write and write- clearing up one clot till the next black hole.
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